Creating a new Location object in javascript

Question

Is it possible to create a new Location object in javascript? I have a url as a string and I would like to leverage what javascript already provides to gain access to the di

Answer 1

You can leverage the power of an anchor element

var aLink = document.createElement("a");
aLink.href="http://www.example.com/foo/bar.html?q=123#asdf";
alert(aLink.pathname);